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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1917
Page
8
An elderly town shopper in the north laments high prices and scarce goods as grocers claim fresh tees are scarce. The reader tone mirrors a rural paper's style, with a brief aside about Dr. Fierce's Pleasant Pellets as a household remedy.
A fragment discusses egg sizing under US Department of Agriculture oversight for South Carolina farms. It notes eggs meeting exact dimensions are accepted for market while undersized eggs are rejected. The text suggests tailoring eggs to the preferred size and mentions a specific minimum length and diameter criterion.
The article discusses methods for estimating poultry age without a positive test. It notes spur development, feather texture, and wing growth as indicators, describing the difficulty of precise aging. It references body features such as skin and shin surfaces and mentions the variability among fowls and breeds.
Fattening hens use small wooden coops for five birds each. they require limited exercise and a fattening feed of sour milk and corn meal fed three times daily. remove the feeding pan after each meal to prevent contamination and keep birds from overeating.
The article notes pullets may overeat when not properly fed and lack of variety slows growth. It stresses that feeding must balance intake and nutrition, especially while the hen is laying, to ensure steady development and timely onset of laying.
Early fall hatching of broilers and fryers is expected to lift prices in the holiday season. Demand traditionally peaks for fryer and broiler poultry, with sellers often fetching better rates during this period.
O A Steele of Clarke County Ohio defends a hearing based ear notching method for marking purebreds in Onlo Farmer. He emphasizes certainty in pedigrees and notes four notches on the ear base as a counting system.
A farmer describes labeling ewes with notch codes at ear bases and tips, using a Yunch label, then writing breed and mating details in a small notebook. The system records birth date, ewe number, sire, ram, milk, and remount notes to trace pedigrees and lambing outcomes.
A historical note describes a pig health issue with fatigue and irritation when protein intake is high. It suggests feeding 12 parts corneal?, two parts shorts, and one part meat with a repainted silk, plus Nehtecude spray on affected areas and a lard sulfur mix for worst spots.
Breeding notes that ewes consume comparatively large quantities of roughage with little grain. Corn stalks and straw may be important and economical, but should be supplemented by foods with more protein. Sheep eat about 28 to 86 percent of their weight in roughage. wheat straw is less valuable than oat straw, and rye straw has little value.
A fragmented notice advises thorough whitewashing and disinfection of hog houses and yards after a cholera outbreak. It suggests delaying stocking pigs for a few weeks or two to three months, depending on observed conditions, to prevent losses.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a physician s prescription for kidney liver and bladder problems claiming it neutralizes uric acid and relieves rheumatism. It urges readers to buy a bottle from druggists and mail ten cents for a sample bottle while noting wartime soldier morale content.
An old newspaper fragment advertises Cuticura Soap and Ointment with promises of cleansing and purification. The passage then shifts to a humorous, colloquial anecdote about a man who ignores a fortune teller, encounters a White doctor, and reacts with disbelief at the teller’s predictions.
An advertisement touts All's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh by destroying the disease’s foundation and strengthening the body. It claims relief from inflammation of mucous surfaces and references testimonials and free samples. The piece also veers into religious statistics about Christians in Japan and Protestant figures, ending with a provocative line about baldheaded tramps.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a "pray mare" in a house and a comment on the average man’s wage. Pittsburgh is noted with a bank consolidation and a capital figure of 9,000,000, while Pierre appears as an unclear reference. The readable facts are sparse and fragmented.
Diabetes sufferers are urged not to give up seeking relief. The ad touts Warner's Safe Diabetes Remedy as a proven herbal formula used for forty years, claiming dramatic improvements and safe ingredients. Testimonial letters from users are included, urging others to try the product and request samples or purchases.
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